Las Vegas: Greg Anderson Racing Friday report

Anderson Gets off to a Good Start in Las Vegas
Racers during the first day of qualifying at the SummitRacing.com NHRA
Nationals encountered the warmest conditions of the 2010 season, with the
mercury topping 85 degrees and track temperatures ...

Anderson Gets off to a Good Start in Las Vegas

Racers during the first day of qualifying at the SummitRacing.com NHRA
Nationals encountered the warmest conditions of the 2010 season, with the
mercury topping 85 degrees and track temperatures reaching 128. As a
result, teams found themselves scrambling to find the right tune-up for
the tricky Strip at Las Vegas Motor Speedway surface.

Fortunately, Greg Anderson and the Summit Racing team seemed quite at
home in the heat, posting one of the quickest times in each session, with
his 6.737-second, 204.51 mph best placing him fourth midway through
qualifying. Although pleased with his opening effort, the six-time Las
Vegas winner noted he had other reasons for smiling.

"Today was a very positive day for the Summit Racing team," said
Anderson. "I made two decent runs, we're going in the right
direction, getting quicker and both the car and the driver feel pretty
darn good.

"I have a lot of reasons to be happy this weekend. We have our
friends from Summit out here with us, who do so much for myself and
Jason, and I was able to spend some time with my boss Ken Black yesterday
afternoon. Ken put a smile on my face, telling me not to worry about him
and to go out and have fun, guaranteeing that if we did that, we'd
have better results. Looking at how we did today, he obviously has the
right formula.

"That is why we miss him so much. When he's out here, he can
straighten us out in a second, getting us out of whatever funk we may be
in. Since talking to him, I feel like a whole new man, and we're
doing a better job with the race car.

"With all those people in our corner, I have a smile on my face that
is not going to go away. So far I'm having a great weekend, and
I'm going to do everything I can to make it just as good for those
who support us."